This project sounds like a very scary proposition. I know you don't want to do it.
Kinda like the project we are all working on right now...our marriages. We don't want to do some of the things we must do. We see the final goal and know we have to go through the process to arrive at that goal, but we still don't want to do it.
I wish there were less unknowns for you with this project, but again the analogy is there. Our R's are loaded with unknowns as well.